The first thousand one hundred and nineteen chapters
Shan Xiongxin nodded and took five trebuchets and pushed five carts forward.
As Sui approached the distance, the Goguryeo trebuchets started to show their power, and stone bullets the size of human heads fell from the sky. Yuwen Chengdu no longer cared about the arrows above his head. He gave an order, and the shield soldiers in the front row erected the tower shield with three pickaxes.
After digging deeply into the ground, he quickly took a step back to avoid the stone hitting the giant shield and injuring the shield soldiers. Shan Xiongxin lined up with two hundred people in a horizontal row, closely followed by the five thousand emperor's personal guards.
behind.
The huge boulders hit the giant shield with a loud bang, and the giant shield immediately dented a large piece. Some boulders crossed the giant shield and fell among the scattered emperor's personal guards. They hit the dry and hard ground and then shattered. The flying stones hit the ground.
The thick armor of the infantry clanked. As for the emperor's personal guards who were directly hit by the boulder, there was only a pool of blood on the ground. As for the corpses, they were smashed by the powerful boulder and fell all over the ground.
Fortunately, the emperor's personal guards are all the most elite soldiers selected from the twelve guards. Every soldier in the original army can be called the king of soldiers. Moreover, the first wave of emperor's personal guards are all wearing heavy armor.
The king of soldiers was used to fighting, and although he was frightened, no one took a step back.
The Sui Army's Ten Eight Bull Crossbows following behind reacted immediately. Ten strong men holding mallets hit the machine brackets with their hammers, buzzing, buzzing, three times in succession, and the ten crossbows
.The gun left the Eight Ox Crossbow and flew towards the city.
The rest of the soldiers immediately re-stringed the eight-niu crossbows in an orderly manner, installed crossbows and guns, and then shouted, re-activated their machinery, and used a continuous rain of arrows to maintain uninterrupted suppression of the city head.
However, the effect was not good. The stone bullets thrown by the trebuchet were still dense. Under the arrangement of Yuwen Chengdu, the emperor's personal guards dispersed their formation again and continued to advance towards the city.
Fortunately, the Sui army attacked fiercely elsewhere and dispersed most of the Goguryeo defenders. Although the Goguryeo people realized that the Sui troops pushing towards the city gate were the elite of the Sui army, they were unable to concentrate all their long-range attacks here.
But even so, the Sui army pushing towards the city gate was still like a magnet, firmly attracting many Goguryeo trebuchets.
Finally, an open space appeared between the formations.
At this time, the Sui army's hundreds of trebuchets also began to show their power, and in less than a cup of tea, they began to throw more dense stone bombs at the city head.
The dense stone bullets collided in mid-air, and the flying gravel was like a torrential downpour.
When the Sui army's five thousand emperor's personal guards were less than a hundred steps away from the Liaodong City, the city gate suddenly opened, and a group of Goguryeo cavalry poured out from the city gate. The intensive sound of horse hooves even covered up the loud sound of war drums.
ring.
Shan Xiongxin was shocked when he saw this, thinking that gunpowder had blown up the city gate in Daluo City, Annan County, Goguryeo. Yuan Taizuo in Liaodong City might have gotten the news.
Logically speaking, this is impossible, because there are millions of troops surrounding Liaodong City, which has become an isolated city for a long time. However, among these millions of troops there are at least fifty Goguryeo spies. That was what Yuan Tai ordered three years ago.
After Zuo learned that Yang Guang was going to conquer Goguryeo, he was a small part of the 500 secret spies sent to the Sui Dynasty.
"Spear forward!"
Although he was surprised that the Goguryeo people actually sent people out of the city. You should know that this was the first time the Goguryeo people sent people out of the city since the siege. Yuwen Chengdu was not timid at all. He roared angrily, and the shield soldiers tried their best to plunge the deformed tower shield into the ground.
The pikemen's spears soon poked out from the muzzle of the tower shield, and the entire military formation looked like a giant hedgehog.
Ba Niu Crossbow also changed its strategy and no longer fired its powerful crossbow at the city wall. Instead, under Yuwen Chengdu's order, it fired at the city gate.
Huge crossbows and guns whizzed past the heads of the two hundred operators led by Shan Xiongxin, like a swarm of crazy wasps, making their scalps numb.
Then they saw the most terrifying scene in the world. Countless Goguryeo cavalry were flying in the air, their bodies were pierced by crossbows and spears, and then they were swaying randomly and nailed to the city wall.
No matter how many people were taken away by crossbows and guns, the huge city gate was like the exit of hell, and there was still a steady stream of cavalry being spit out from the exit, and they soon joined the war.
Obviously Yuan Taizuo may have realized that the secret weapon used by Wang Junlin in Annan County appeared here.
"Can we project explosive charges from the current distance?" Shan Xiongxin asked the centurion next to him in a low voice who was responsible for commanding and measuring the projectile charges.
The centurion leader said calmly: "It's best to be closer, that way it will be safer."
The Goguryeo cavalry roared and weaved left and right on the battlefield. It could be seen that they were the elite of the Goguryeo cavalry. They were very fast and divided the ordinary Sui infantry in front into countless small squares. As soon as they saw any flaws in the infantry formation, they immediately
Just throw short spears and battle axes in, and as long as a gap is opened, the infantry without unified command can only accept the massacre of the cavalry.
More cavalry crossed the infantry formation, waving their weapons and howling, charging towards Shan Xiongxin and his entourage who were protected by 5,000 emperor's troops.
The trebuchets at the top of the city have stopped throwing stones. Shan Xiongxin believes that as long as this group of Goguryeo cavalry is defeated, more stones will cover this place again.
As Yuwen Chengdu shouted loudly and rumbling footsteps sounded, he led half of the emperor's personal guards in heavy armor across the shield formation and rushed toward the oncoming cavalry with their spears and axes.
Under the cover of the eight oxen crossbows, the two thousand five hundred emperor's personal guards in heavy armor first responded to the enemy with the powerful crossbows in their hands. Their hands were very accurate. As long as they raised their hands, a Goguryeo cavalry would appear.
Fell under the horse.
The infantry of the Sui Dynasty were invincible in the world, let alone the king of soldiers among these soldiers.
It's just that in this world where cavalry is the most important, even if the infantry defeats the enemy, they can only watch the enemy escape on horseback. They can never get a happy and exciting battle of annihilation. In this way, the Sui infantry's
The light always seems so weak.
In this world, the only people in the world who can compete head-on with cavalry are heavy armored infantry. A set of heavy armor weighing more than sixty kilograms gives them a fighting chance against heavy cavalry. Therefore, Yang Guangcai followed Wang Junlin's request.
Five thousand emperor's personal bodyguards were sent over.
In a short period of time, Yuwen Chengdu led 2,500 emperor's personal guards in heavy armor to form a thin defense line in front of the shield formation. They held long-handled battle axes and swords, and pulled down their hoods to wait for the Goguryeo light cavalry.
s arrival.
At this time, the battlefield had become a mess, with Sui troops and Goguryeo people fighting together everywhere.